Underclassmen in NBA Draft

Twenty Division I players (14 juniors, four sophomores and two freshmen), four high school seniors, three players from overseas, two junior college players, two NAIA players, one Division II junior and one Division II sophomore forfeited the remainder
of their college eligibility and declared for the 1998 NBA Draft which took place at GM Place in Vancouver, British Columbia on June 24.

Players are listed in alphabetical order; first round selections in bold type, high school players in italics.

Cl

Drafted by

OverallPick

Rafer Alston, Fresno St.

Jr.

Milwaukee

39

Corey Benjamin, Oregon St.

So.

Chicago

28

Mike Bibby, Arizona

So.

Vancouver

2

Chandar Bingham, Virginia Union

So.

Not drafted

—

Marcus Bullard, Auburn-Montgomery

Jr.

Not drafted

—

Vince Carter, N. Carolina

Jr.

Golden State

5

Wayne Clark, DeKalb (Ga.) JC

Jr.

Not drafted

—

Tim Cole, NE Miss. CC

Jr.

Not drafted

—

Peter Cornell, Loyola-Marymount

Jr.

Not drafted

—

Arthur Davis, St. Joseph's

So.

Not drafted

—

Ricky Davis, Iowa

Fr.

Charlotte

21

Tremaine Fowlkes, Fresno St.

Jr.

Denver

54

Al Harrington, St. Patrick (N.J.) HS

HS

Indiana

25

Larry Hughes, Saint Louis

Fr.

Philadelphia

8

Randell Jackson, Florida St.

Jr.

Not drafted

—

Jerome James, Florida A&M

Jr.

Sacramento

36

Antawn Jamison, N. Carolina

Jr.

Toronto

4

Rashard Lewis, Alief-Elsik (Tex.)

HS

Seattle

32

Tyronn Lue, Nebraska

Jr.

Denver

23

Jelani McCoy, UCLA

Jr.

Seattle

33

Stanislav Medvedenko, Budivelnik (UKR)

—

Not drafted

—

Mark Miller, Ill-Chicago

Jr.

Not drafted

—

Nazr Mohammed, Kentucky

Jr.

Utah

29

Dirk Nowitzki, DJK Wurzburg (GER)

—

Milwaukee

9

Paul Pierce, Kansas

Jr.

Boston

10

Ellis Richardson, Polytechnic (Calif.)

HS

Not drafted

—

Adam Roberts, San Francisco St.

Jr.

Not drafted

—

James Spears, Shaw U.

Jr.

Not drafted

—

Bruno Sudov, Split (CRO)

—

Dallas

35

Robert Traylor, Michigan

Jr.

Dallas

6

Winfred Walton, Fresno St.

So.

Not drafted

—

Jason Williams, Florida

Jr.

Sacramento

7

Korleone Young, Hargrave Mil Acad.

HS

Detroit

40

Note: Lee Nailon of Texas Christian, Lamar Odom of Rhode Island, Bud Eley of Southeast Missouri State, Rico Harris of Los Angeles City College, Marko Jaric of Peristeri (Greece), Sasa Markovic-Theodorakis of Panionios (Greece), and
Dimitris Papanikolaou of Olympiakos (Greece) declared for the draft and then withdrew their names before the June 18 deadline.